Likelihood of Success

Ich bin ein Moonbat

Mar 30, 2007 Euroids

Don Surber writes about the belief system of today’s Germans:

A poll by der Stern showed that 48% of Germans think the U.S. is more dangerous than Iran. Only 31% think the other way. Hmm. Are they sure San Francisco wasn’t included in that poll?[snip]

The Germans have believed in many things in the course of their recent history. They’ve believed in colonies in Africa and in the Kaiser. They even believed in the Kaiser when he told them that there would be no more political parties, only soldiers on the front.

Not too long afterwards, they believed that Jews should be placed into ghettos and concentration camps because they were the enemies of the people.

Harsh. But here’s what I snipped: “Claus Christian Malzahn, online political editor for der Spiegel takes this apart.” Yeah, he’s one of them. More:

We’ve known just what they’re like for a long time. The 19th century German author Karl May taught us about the American Wild West, and Karl Marx warned us about unbridled capitalism.

Besides, we’ve all been there at least once — on vacation, of course.Be it in California or Florida (that’s where you get the best deals on rental cars, you know), we can see right through the Americans.For us Germans, the Americans are either too fat or too obsessed with exercise, too prudish or too pornographic, too religious or too nihilistic. In terms of history and foreign policy, the Americans have either been too isolationist or too imperialistic. They simply go ahead and invade foreign countries (something we Germans, of course, would never do) and then abandon them, the way they did in Vietnam and will soon do in Iraq.

Worst of all, the Americans won the war in 1945. (Well, with German help, of course — from Einstein and his ilk.) There are some Germans who will never forgive the Americans for VE Day, when they defeated Hitler. After all, Nazism was just an accident, whereas Americans are inherently evil. Just look at President Bush, the man who, as some of SPIEGEL ONLINE’s readers steadfastly believe, “is worse than Hitler.”

Ironically, they wouldn’t really know. Maybe if they read more of Malzahn — who is quite the contrarian voice there, and has a powerful perch from which to observe and declaim — they would. But don’t count on it.